Downtown Indianapolis

In Downtown Indianapolis, commercial office space available for lease has dropped for the first time in five years. That trend toward lower vacancies is expected to continue, and speed up, with the opening of the Circle Centre mall in the fall, said David W. Goodrich, president of the commercial division of the F.C. Tucker Co. Tucker, an Indianapolis real estate firm which releases quarterly studies of key real estate statistics, found the...

By Susan Guyett INDIANAPOLIS, June 15 (Reuters) - A fire at a sprawling downtown Indianapolis recycling plant, fueled by propane tanks and a massive stockpile of rubber tires, forced the evacuation of homes and businesses within a five-block radius on Saturday, officials said. "It's an intense situation," said Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department spokesman Christopher Wilburn. "Fifty-five percent of the building has collapsed and from our...

By Susan Guyett INDIANAPOLIS, June 15 (Reuters) - A fire at a sprawling downtown Indianapolis recycling plant, fueled by propane tanks and a massive stockpile of rubber tires, forced the evacuation of homes and businesses within a five-block radius on Saturday, officials said. "It's an intense situation," said Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department spokesman Christopher Wilburn. "Fifty-five percent of the building has collapsed and from our...

In Downtown Indianapolis, commercial office space available for lease has dropped for the first time in five years. That trend toward lower vacancies is expected to continue, and speed up, with the opening of the Circle Centre mall in the fall, said David W. Goodrich, president of the commercial division of the F.C. Tucker Co. Tucker, an Indianapolis real estate firm which releases quarterly studies of key real estate statistics, found the...

Shutdowns: May Department Stores, St. Louis, said its L.S. Ayres unit will close stores in Indianapolis, Evansville, Ft. Wayne and South Bend by late January in a merger with sister company Famous-Barr. May President Thomas A. Hays said the closings will affect 1,285 employees, with about 1,100 of those at in downtown Indianapolis.

Athletes can't seem to stay out of trouble, and we can't seem to look away. Another Cowboy in trouble Dallas Cowboys linebacker Anthony Spencer was arrested over the weekend after a disturbance outside a downtown Indianapolis nightclub. Spencer was arrested on preliminary charges of public intoxication and disorderly conduct about 3 a.m. Sunday outside the Have a Nice Day Cafe, city police Sgt. Matthew Mount said.

Eli Lilly & Co. plans to create a major new technology center by combining and expanding its two manufacturing sites near downtown Indianapolis. The initial phase of the project will involve $540 million in new construction and will create 500 new jobs. In about 10 years, the company expects to have invested more than $1 billion in new facilities in the center and to have added more than 1,000 jobs.

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. has filed a suit to foreclose on the Blue Cross and Blue Shield building in downtown Indianapolis, saying the owner, Mansur Development Corp., defaulted on interest payments. The Mansur Center Limited Partnership III, a Mansur partnership that owns the building, purchased the building in 1990 with a $5 million loan from the Bank of New England, which has collapsed. The partnership is not in default, and no loan payments were due until the end...

Indiana's lowest temperature: -36(degrees)F at New Whiteland on Jan. 19, 1994. New Whiteland is located in central Indiana, about 15 miles south-southeast of downtown Indianapolis. On that same day, Chicago registered a temperature of -19(degrees). ---------- Tom Skilling is chief meteorologist at WGN-TV. His forecasts can be seen Monday through Friday on WGN-TV News at noon and 9 p.m. WGN-TV meteorologists Steve Kahn, Richard Koeneman and Paul Dailey plus weather producer Bill Snyder contribute to...

Tennessee freshman Tamika Catchings, Alabama junior Dominque Canty and Louisiana Tech senior Alisa Burras were among five former area high school players were named to The Associated Press All-America women's basketball team. Catchings, who played two seasons with sister Tauja at Stevenson before moving to Texas; Canty, who played at Young; and Burras, a former Chicago Marshall star, were named to the second team. Former Barrington All-Stater Ashley Berggren, a senior who...

INDIANAPOLIS -- High winds reportedly topping 50 mph forced organizers to temporarily evacuate two tents at the NFL Experience interactive fan exhibit in downtown Indianapolis. NFL Experience spokesman Noah Gold said visitors were ushered out of sponsor and memorabilia tents Sunday after tent operators read high wind speeds on gauges attached to the tents. The tents reopened about an hour later. Gold said he wasn't sure how fast the winds were blowing prior to...